Takashi Iwasaki

Whenever you do something, make sure you always take it seriously. Your future self will thank you for it.

This mindset would then stay with them all the way into adulthood, meaning that even when they did eventually possess the strength to break free from their chains, they remained convinced they couldn’t and wouldn’t even try. Psychologists often referred to this as “learned helplessness” or “baby elephant syndrome.”

—but just because she wanted to handle everything by herself, that didn’t mean she would be able to. That was the kind of thing I’d witnessed way more than was necessary at my previous job. People like her generally ended up breaking down at some point